Paring



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

H. KEYES, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR PARING APPLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16,240, dated December 16, 1856; Ressued. July 21, 1863, No. 1,513.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I-I. KEYES, of Leominster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Paring Apples and ot-her Fruits or Vegetables; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is an elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2, is a horizontal section of the same, 00, Fig. 2, showing the plane of section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists in attaching the knife head to a rotating disk or wheel arranged in such a way that the knife is allowed to pass in a complete circle around the apple or other article to be paredthereby preventing or obviating the neces sity of any backward or retrograde movement of the knife.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents an upright to which a horizontal plate B, is attached, and C, is a screw which passes through a horizontal bar I), attached to the lower end of the upright A. rlhe upright is secured to the edge of a table or bench by means of the screw C. The upper end of the upright A, has a short horizontal bar E, attached to it, and this bar has a pendent bearing a, at its outer end to receive a shaft b, said shaft passing through the upper end of the upright A and having a pinion F, on its end, adjoining the upright. The opposite end of the shaft I), has a fork G, attached to it, on which fork, the apple or other article to be pared is placed.

H, is a shaft which passes through the upright A, just above the plate B. This shaft has a toot-hed wheel I, attached to it, adjoining the upright and the wheel I, gears into the pinion F. The opposite end of the shaft H, has a bevel pinion J, upon it, and this pinion gears into a horizontal wheel K, the axis of which is attached to the plate B.

L, represents a small shaft which is fitted in bearings o, c, attached to the upper surface of the wheel K. This shaft is placed at one side of the center or aXis of the wheel K, and has an upright arm M, attached to it. The shaft L, also has a spiral spring N, around it. One end of this spring is attached to the wheel K, and the opposite end is attached to the lower end of the arm M. The lower end of the arm M, passes down through the wheel K, and bears against a cam O, which is formed on the upper surface of the plate B. The shape of this cam is distinctly shown in Fig. 2. To the upper end of the arm M, a head or stock P, is attached and the knife d, is secured in this head or stock. The knife head or stock and knife are of the usual construction.

From the above description of parts it will be seen that as the wheel I, is rotated, a rotary motion will be communicated to the fork Gr, and also to the wheel K, and the knifehead F, will consequently pass around the fork Gr, in a circle, the knife being made to bear against the apple at one side by means of the spring N, and as the knife passes around at the opposite side of the apple, it is kept thrown out from the apple in consequence of the lower end of the arm bearing against the cam O. When the knife head is thrown out by the cam O, the head is allowed to pass underneath the sha-ft b, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

By the above improvement, the const-ruction of the machine is greatly simplified and the working parts operate smoothly, no backward or retrograde movement of the knife being required, as in ordinary Inachines for the same purpose, as it, the knife, is made so pass entirely around the apple.

I do not confine myself-to the precise arrangement of the parts herein shown for giving the knife head a circular movement around the fork for various modifications of the same may be employed for that purpose, and all answer equally well.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Iletters Patent, is Y Giving the knife a circular movement entirely around the fork G, and apple thereon. by means of the wheel K with the arm M and knife head P, attache-d, and the cam O, arranged as herein shown or in any equivalent way to effect the purpose desired.

HORATIO KEYES.

Witnesses: l

J. W. FLETCHER,

GEO. A. ALLEN.

[FIEsT PRINTED 1912.] 

